How to Host the Best Party Ever

When you invite good friends and provide great tasting food and cocktails, you create an ambiance that will naturally start conversations and provide entertainment. Also remember to set the right mood with the right music for your event. Cocktails are a big part of the party. Have fun serving new & innovative cocktails or cocktails that match your party theme.

Oysters & Champagne

The oystermen who worked the estuary of Maryland’s Lynnhaven River kept a special barrel for the largest, choicest specimens they raked up from the waters of Chesapeake Bay. “For Mr. Brady,” read the label on the barrel, and when the catch was in, the oysters were iced down and loaded onto an express train bound for Manhattan and Charles Rector’s restaurant.

Creating Cocktails

When people ask Barbara Akin what she does for a living, she asks them if they have ever been to a restaurant and seen one of those brightly colored drink menus with pictures of exotic libations. “That’s what I do,” she tells them. Barbara Akin is a beverage consultant.

Wildwood Dean

As long as I live you can always find me close to the Ole Red River. I was born here, raised here, my heart and soul are here, along the sand bars and swift waters, listening to the wind whispering through the willers,” said Dean Price, better known as Wildwood Dean.